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Okay, I'm getting pretty excited about the Oculus Rift now. At the very least, I really want to try it out.

In the above video (via), some journalists try on the still in-development 3D headset. They wander around a snowy medieval village. I'm now imagining a full-blown RPG built with this device in mind.

I'm also imagining falls. I have a bit of a fear of heights, and even in normal video games I get a bit of vertigo when there's a fall. Falling with one of these things on...I can only imagine how gut-wrenchingly cool that would be, though not as cool as flying.

RPGs, horror games, and first-person shooters, not to mention virtual-reality puzzling---all these genres would be amazing, at least if these reactions are representative of the experience.